Art criticism at the turn of the 21st century

By the end of the 20th century, American Hilton Kramer, former art critic for The New York Times and editor of the conservative periodical The New Criterion, remained the one major convinced Greenbergian. American critic Barbara Rose, who rose to prominence in the 1960s for her formalist criticism—in “One-Dimensional Criticism” (1966) she wrote that she thought it “was developed in order to place art criticism on a less impressionistic, more abstract plane of discussion”—opted out of it after realizing that “art criticism is no science; very little that can be said ... (100 of 14,648 words)